![]() I think it’s not just Diablo 3 but with our games as a whole we’re tying everything into these days… We can provide a much a much more stable, connected, safer experience than we could if we let people play off-line.” “You have to authenticate through our servers to be able to play the game. ![]() ![]() “You can play by yourself but your character is going to be saved on our servers,” explained Alex Mayberry, senior producer on the game. This allows for additional elements to the game, including a persistent friends list, cross-game chat through the RealID system, persistent characters stored server-side, PvP and game matching, drop-in/drop-out co-op, larger item stash, an auction house, an achievement system, and a banner system which allows you to display your successes in the game. When you look at everything you get by having that persistent connection on the servers, you cannot ignore the power and the draw of that.”ĭiablo 3 requires players to be online at all times in order to play. “We’ve been doing online gameplay for 15 years now… and with World of WarCraft and our roots in and now with Diablo 3, it really is just the nature of how things are going, the nature of the industry. “I’m actually kind of surprised in terms of there even being a question in today’s age around online play and the requirement around that,” Bridenbecker told MTV Mutiplayer Blog. This follows news earlier in the week that Diablo 3 cannot be played offline. Robert Bridenbecker, the Vice President of Online Technologies at Blizzard, has said that he’s ‘surprised’ at the fan reaction to Diablo 3’s online requirements.
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